Fredrick George's Story.
Birkenhead News 04 May 1918
GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS SERGEANT.
Officer’s Tribute to a Splendid Deed.
Pathetic circumstances are associated with the death of Bombardier F. G. Yeardsley, who in civil life was employed at the Birkenhead Docks with Messrs. W. A. Swift and Co. stevedores. He had received very serious wounds on April 17, and died in hospital the same night. According to the report sent home by the Captain he was wounded when carrying one of the sergeants of the battery who had been hit. In spite of the dangerous injuries he received while assisting the wounded sergeant the officer says “it was as much as we could do to get him to come away to get his wounds dressed. All the time he kept asking to be allowed to go back to his sergeant. It was one of the most wonderful cases of one man giving his life for another that I have ever heard. You ought to be proud of your son as we are proud of him. He set by his own life an example – a splendid example – to the battery. He gave his life and his all for another.” His parents live at 133, Corporation Road, Birkenhead.